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Fine, he says. Then I love you.

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Veronica Roth
Age: 36
Born: 1988
Born: August 19
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
New York City
New York
Veronica Anne Roth
Fine
Says
Love
Divergent

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Looks like someone had a mood swing.” She rolls her eyes. “Like you don’t want to know what his fears are. He acts so tough that he’s probably afraid of marshmallows and really bright sunrises or something.
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I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. THAT'S why you like me! I exclaim. Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.
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If Eric thinks I did something right, I must have done it wrong.
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Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.
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With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?
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Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.
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I know that I am birdlike, made narrow and small as if for taking flight, built straight-waisted and fragile. But when he touches me like he can't bear to take his hand away, I don't wish I was any different.
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My father says that those who want power and get it live in terror of losing it. That's why we have to give power to those who do not want it.
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I glance at Tris. She grins at me, then leans in to whisper something to Christina. Are you here to help or what, Stiff? I say.
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Noise and activity are the refuges of the bereaved and the guilty.
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But there's so much that was a lie, it's hard to figure out what was true, what was real, what matters.
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It's strange how time can make a place shrink, make its strangeness ordinary.
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I reach out and take his hand. His fingers slide between mine. I can't breathe.
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That's why you like me!' I exclaim. 'Because you're not nice either! It makes so much more sense now.' 'Come on,' he says. 'We're going to see Johanna.' 'I like you, too.' 'That's encouraging,' he replies flatly. 'Come on. Oh for God's sake. I'll just carry you.
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I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.
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No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.
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I'll have to keep looking for more of them, more brief moments of freedom in a world that refuses to allow it.
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My parents did love each other. Enough to forsake plans and factions. Enough to defy “faction before blood.” Blood before faction--no, love before faction, always. - Tris Prior
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That's the first time I've ever said those words out loud, and now I hear how strange they are. How many young men fear that there is a monster instead them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves.
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My problem might be that even if I did go home, I wouldn’t belong there, among people who give without thinking and care without trying.
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